SwarmTeams Explained

Posted in October 15th, 2009

Ever wondered what a Swarm Team is ? – probably not heard of them – this brief video explains a very useful tool for group/organization collaboration http://bit.ly/135UME

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A book review : Peter Block’s ‘The Answer to How is Yes’

Posted in November 12th, 2008

by Stephen in change, Collaboration, cooperation

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Collaboration & Convenient Myths

Posted in September 12th, 2008

by Stephen in Assumptions, Collaboration

People have been talking about ‘flattened organizations’ for decades. There are a whole rack of examples listed in books like ‘The Living Company’ (De Geus), ‘The Future of Work’ ( Malone), and ‘GUTS’ (Freibergs). Despite that, a great many companies and team are still struggling with finding ways of flattening themselves out. That is to […]

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Teamwork – The First Furrow

Posted in May 21st, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration

A story about where teamwork and collaboration begins.

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What is Collaborative Intelligence?

Posted in May 18th, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration, Collaborative Intelligence

A brief video explaining what Collaborative Intelligence is and how it can be used to enable groups and teams to be more effective.

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Collaboration – Can We Own Knowledge?

Posted in May 15th, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration, Creativity, Knowledge Management, open source, Resilience

Our society is fast outstripping it’s ability to keep up with the production of knowledge and information. The Creative Commons sprang from the urge to make and create with a modified concept of ‘ownership’. Extremely successful in the creation of software and in the early days most notably the operating system ‘Linux’. The CC licencing […]

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What Happens to Them – Happens to Us

Posted in May 14th, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration

Images of the China earthquake on the New York Times and those of the situation in Myanmar are reminding us that we human live on ONE planet and it is getting very small – smaller by the day. What happens to others across the planet increasingly is impacting everyone else. The Chinese government have […]

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Everyone is One – One What?

Posted in May 13th, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration

Film has been used for the purpose of creating social change for a long time. Not all of it for our benefit as a species (think war propaganda movies). Pangea Day has raised the ante on the use of film in raising peoples awareness and mobilizing human potential. Another project which is also using film […]

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Come Together – Right Now (Start Humming the Tune)

Posted in May 12th, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration, What's New?

May 10th was Pangea Day – if you haven’t already heard of it – it was an international event in the spirit of ‘Live Aid’ except the media was film rather than music. I was glued to my PC (couldn’t get to a live event) for the entire four hours. So many of the short […]

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Darwinomics Rules – OK?

Posted in May 6th, 2008

by Stephen in Collaboration, competition, cooperation

‘Darwinomics’ is a term apparently invented by the script-writers of the ‘West-Wing’ TV show. Immediately I heard the term I thought of the scramble for money at the expense (pardon the pun) of everything else. It turns out that Darwinomics doesn’t have an official definition but was used in such a way as to suggest […]

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